The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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